Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...

In order to meet the dire challenges that face us, social movements are going to need new and creative strategies. We are going to need groups that are willing to escalate and take risks. And when ...

On a special episode (first released on February 5, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: From conservative social movements such as those tied to prohibition, the Moral Majority evangelicals, and the Tea ...

Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days of platforms like Twitter, this was intuitive. Protest movements want attention, but mainstream media outlets ...

Gordon, a noted historian of the United States, seeks to understand how social movements arise and operate, in the belief that these movements have changed the world as significantly as have wars or ...

Like the movement to unionize industrial workers in the 1930s and the African American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, the farmworkers’ movement was a singing movement. It consciously ...

Other peoples have risen. Other peoples have risen up to defend their rights, their dignity, and their democracies. In the past 50 years, they’ve done it in Poland, South Africa, Lebanon, South Korea, ...

I draw on Erving Goffman’s Frame Analysis and Eviatar Zerubavel’s sociology of attention to examine social movement communication as attempts to change hearts and minds by changing definitions of ...

You’d be surprised by how many of your favourite hits are about God or Jesus in one way or another. The guilty verdict on Blaise Compaoré should be celebrated as a landmark victory for democracy and ...

When taking part in the social challenge, participants are tasked with holding an athletic pose, posting it along with the hashtag #HONORtheChallenger, and nominating others to participate. A ...